20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, 1 some of the elders 2 of Israel came to seek 3 the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.
24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month 4 :
26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 5 the word of the Lord came to me:
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, 6 the word of the Lord came to me:
29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, 7 the word of the Lord came to me:
31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, 8 the word of the Lord came to me:
32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, 9 the word of the Lord came to me:
40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city 10 was struck down, on this very day, 11 the hand 12 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. 13
1 sn The date would be August 14th, 591
2 tn Heb “men from the elders.”
3 tn See the note at 14:3.
4 tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588
5 tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.
6 tn January 7, 587
7 sn April 26, 571
8 sn June 21, 587
9 tn March 17, 585
10 sn That is, Jerusalem.
11 tn April 19, 573
12 tn Or “power.”
13 sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).